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My attempt to document
WDW's early years has benefited greatly from the assistance of many
people. It started with my parents, who first took me to the
Magic Kingdom in October 1971 ... surely oblivious to what impact this
place would have on me. Since then, dozens of other family
members, friends and strangers have generously provided
information, photos and recordings that made the process much more
enlightening than I could have reasonably expected. Most of them are
listed below. Some requested anonymity and others I am
unable
to mention (an
e-mail crash in 2003 caused the loss of some names).
While I can't say all of these individuals
condone WYW, they did help make it possible.
No one's encouragement,
however, eclipses that of my
amazing wife, Amy. She'll never read
this or any of the pages I've written, but her support was and remains vital.
The proliferation of online resources
that has
occurred since WYW came to the internet in 1996 has surprised me as
it went from a
handful of sites with small photos to near-countless
galleries of high-resolution pictures posted en masse, with links to once-rare audio
and video becoming commonplace and - if that wasn't enough -
torrent files making it painfully easy to download
source-quality park background music and old Disney TV shows at high
speeds.
In much the same way that people once drove to record stores in
the hopes of finding a specific Icicle Works import, Disney collectors
once relied on their personal connections to other collectors and
convention gatherings for old guide books, pictures and music. I had
to create a newsletter, for example, before I had any real success in
locating old photos of If You Had Wings in the early 1990s. The
internet changed everything, and even if some people miss the more
arduous and rewarding nature of "the hunt," my guess is that few resist ready access to
what's on flickr and mousebits on principle.
The only grief this causes
me is that giving proper credit for photos or recordings has become
difficult from the standpoint of verification. In 1992, if someone
sent me a picture of a Swan Boat it was a singular moment, achieved via
the postal service, and I'll pretty much always remember that person's
name. Now, with a spurious electronic discharge of media only two
clicks away 24/7, there's so much crazy shit flying around everywhere that
true authorship can be impossible to prove. Someone e-mailed me a
.jpg file of RCA's Home of Future Living in 2007 and in 2008 I saw the
same photo on another person's photobucket account. If I use it I'll
try to credit the right person, but may never know who actually took the
picture. So if an image on WYW is not attributed to someone by name,
it's generally because it either came from WDW's own media or because I
took the photo myself (any photo with widenyourworld.net on it fits into
that latter category). Otherwise I've done my best to cite the
origin. Until such time as this site does something commercial,
which will probably be the 12th of Never, I think that's a fair
approach.
As for
artwork, photos and diagrams from WDW/WED archives, my
position is that if someone sends me scans of this type of material
with permission to use it, I may do so without citing the name of the
person in direct conjunction with the item for the express purpose of
protecting the sender (even if they don't think they need
it!). I'm not claiming authorship of those items and won't
watermark them, but in general I think concept art and visual
documentation of ex-attractions should be out there for WDW fans to
enjoy vs. hiding in file drawers. If I can help achieve that
while simultaneously using the images to provide historical context,
without
getting people in trouble, I
will. Any helpful individuals NOT requesting anonymity, however, will be listed
on this page no matter what.
Sometimes people e-mail to see if they can use something from WYW. The answer
is always yes, but I do appreciate having the site mentioned as the
source.
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Paul F.
Anderson
Sonny
Anderson
Harry
Applegate
Dave Barker,
Jr.
Ed Barlow
Buddy Baker
Todd Becker
Reed Bickley
Johnny Blanco
Howard Bowers
Robert Boyd
Russell Brower
Steve Burns
Kira Chamberlain
Brandon Champlin
David
Collier
Matt Comegys
Pat Connor
German Contreras
Bill Cotter
Spencer Cook
Tom Cook
Michael Cozart
Steve Dahlem
Alastair Dallas
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Alice & Marc Davis
Rhodes Davis
Gian DiMauro
Linda & Phil
Dowdy
Marty Dunne
Martha J. Earle
Ed Ellers
Dave Ensign
Donna & Ernest Ensign
Ed Film
Stephen M. Fjellman
Michael Flint
Chris Foxx
Donna Freitag
Jan
Freitag
Laura Harper
Mike Herman
Kyoko Hikami
Jim Hill
"Miami" Mike Hiscano
Dave & Sandy Hooper
Scott Hoover
Suzanne Jones
Bob & Kathleen
Kammerer
Stewart
Kennington
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Michael Kingsley
Jerry
Klatt
David Koenig
Michael
Kotler
John Kunzer
Jimmy
Layle
Janelle & Brian Lee
Hugh & Vernice Lee
James & Dover Lee
Robert & Shari Lee
Brian Lewis
Peter LeZotte
Mike & Beth Lucas
Marc Macuse
Randolph B. Mahoney
Greg Maletic
Dave McCormick
Christopher
McElroy
Dave McFee
Christopher Merritt
Cathy
Moloney
Bill Moore
Jim Moore
Chuck Munson
Kiyomi
Nakamura
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Dale Nora
Frank Nora
Jim Ohrberg
Kathryn Overman
Eric Paddon
Ross Plesset
The Presslers
Holly J. Pluard
Mike Prendergast
Tracy Rhodes
Heather Saines
Greg Scott
Bob Shelley
Dave Smith
Martin Smith
Scott Smith
V. Anton Spraul
David Strebler
Michael Sweeney
Gerald Walker
Larry Warmoth
Debbie Wills
Phil Zeller
Rose Zettler
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